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Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall
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July 1, 2022
ep100: Looking back at 99 shows
<p>Chris and Randall discuss the last 99 episodes before taking a little hiatus of perhaps a couple of months. </p> <p>***</p> <p>Our most popular episodes</p> <p><br /> Total downloads:</p> <p>ep6: Modernism vs. Post-Modernism<br /> ep7: PUNK ROCK<br /> ep15: 1980s comedies - part 3 of 3 - John Hughes and late 80s<br /> ep2: Hipster Hollywood in the 60s<br /> ep3: Science fiction TV shows we're watching<br /> ep20: Chris' latest obsession or Youtube music in the time of COVID-19<br /> ep4: Randall introduces a new genre: Bonkers Sci-Fi<br /> ep24: Generation X growing old with radio<br /> ep11: Stand up favorites new and old<br /> ep19: Randall hates on J.J. Abrams</p> <p><br /> First 7 days:</p> <p>ep94: What is Generation X humor?<br /> ep96: 21st century music bio-pic with guest Bill Gucwa<br /> ep95: How to sell NFT art<br /> ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire<br /> ep82: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)<br /> ep91: The abstract moment<br /> ep97: Q & A with Jerry Leibowitz — Professional Animator, Underground Comic Creator, and Graphic Designer<br /> ep90: The road to modernism<br /> ep62: The arts & entertainment of the Fourth of July<br /> ep80: Turkeys that are so bad they're good</p> <p>***</p> <p>Topics discussed include: </p> <p>How to be a guest<br /> advertising on Facebook<br /> Generation X<br /> Randall's love of Marcel Duchamp<br /> Herbert Marcuse<br /> ep30: Does art influence the public mind?<br /> Harry Potter<br /> A Christmas Carol<br /> Star Wars<br /> Science Fiction<br /> Comedy<br /> stand-ups<br /> ep8: PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A STAND UP, or the aesthetics of President Trump<br /> Taika Waititi<br /> Thorstein Veblen<br /> ep41: Candy as entertainment<br /> live performance</p> <p><br /> ***</p> <p>recorded June 15, 2022</p> <p>***</p> <p>Visit us at <a href= "https://chrisandrandall.com/">https://chrisandrandall.com/</a></p>
June 22, 2022
ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire
<p>Randall asserts that (US-made) Vietnam War movies nearly universally serve to exonerate US conduct in the war — a war whose purpose is only to oppress indigenous people, further colonialism, and expand empire. </p> <p>***</p> <p>Vietnam movies discussed include: </p> <p>The Green Berets (1968)<br /> Coming Home (1978)<br /> The Deer Hunter (1978)<br /> Go Tell the Spartans (1978)<br /> Apocalypse Now (1979)<br /> First Blood (1982)<br /> Platoon (1986)<br /> Good Morning; Vietnam (1987)<br /> Hamburger Hill (1987)<br /> Gardens of Stone (1987)<br /> Full Metal Jacket (1987)<br /> Hanoi Hilton (1987)<br /> Born on the Fourth of july (1989)<br /> Casualties of War (1989)<br /> We Were Soldiers (2002)<br /> Rescue Dawn (2006)</p> <p>***</p> <p>Topics discussed include:</p> <p>US empire building<br /> The Phoenix Program<br /> What would a good Vietnam movie be like? <br /> The CIA as an outgrowth of Nazi intelligence<br /> Reinhard Gehlen<br /> Operation Paperclip<br /> Mỹ Lai massacre<br /> Wannsee Conference<br /> Côn Đảo Prison<br /> Zero Dark Thirty (2012)<br /> American Sniper (2014)<br /> The Card Counter (2021)<br /> Top Gun: Maverick (2022)<br /> Bertolt Brecht's distancing effect<br /> wars run by the CIA<br /> Missing (1982)<br /> Paths of Glory (1957)</p> <p>***</p> <p><a href= "https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/movies-video-games/2018/03/29/military-times-10-best-vietnam-war-movies/"> https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/movies-video-games/2018/03/29/military-times-10-best-vietnam-war-movies/</a></p> <p>***</p> <p>Quotes from this show:</p> <p>I would call it a moral get out of jail free card because if every soldier in every war is really just an innocent chap who accidentally signed up for the wrong thing and now got stuck with a bunch of bullies who don't know any better, it really reduces the entire nation's moral culpability in a war because now it's just a bunch of good guys and bullies. —Chris</p> <p>These movies are trying to excuse the US' behavior in Vietnam. —Randall</p> <p>We gotta do bad things because the people we're fighting do bad things. You can literally justify anything with that moral equivalency. There's no point in having law, order, civility, or even a Geneva Convention if you're just going to tell hero stories. —Chris</p> <p>Our hero has the right to morally transgress because the villain is always so bad that the rules of civility exempts our hero from having any rules of civility. —Chris</p> <p>The CIA is the missing character in a lot of these movies. —Chris</p> <p>Every other kind of genre there's a moment of catharsis and realization that you can be a better person, but you can't do that with a country. You can't tell a story about a nation becoming a better person. Every time you make a war movie you're always going to end up with this false pat on the back. —Chris</p> <p>Is there anything the US could do that the US people would be ashamed of? —Randall</p> <p>Almost every one of our war movies are in some sense a perverse rationalization for violence. —Chris</p> <p>Why are they made at all? They're glorifications of going to war. —Randall</p> <p>***</p> <p>Background reading:</p> <p>How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr</p> <p>The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine</p> <p>The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine </p> <p>Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson</p> <p>A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen</p> <p>***</p> <p>recorded June 12, 2022</p> <p>***</p> <p>Visit us at <a href= "https://chrisandrandall.com/">https://chrisandrandall.com/</a></p>
June 18, 2022
ep98: What is Psychedelic Music? — with guest Robert Ciccone
<p>Chris and Randall talk psychedelic music with musician Robert Ciccone.</p> <p>***</p> <p>Topics discussed include: </p> <p>origins and influences<br /> LSD<br /> The Grateful Dead<br /> Jefferson Airplane<br /> The Beatles<br /> Pink Floyd<br /> Jimi Hendrix Experience<br /> Tomorrow Never Knows<br /> Brian Wilson<br /> Pet Sounds<br /> Rubber Soul<br /> Smile<br /> Good Vibrations<br /> Monterey Pop<br /> What is the connection between LSD and Psychedelic Music?<br /> White Rabbit<br /> stereo technology<br /> Led Zeppelin<br /> The Who<br /> fashion<br /> Grace Slick<br /> Altamont Free Concert<br /> The Doors<br /> Vanilla Fudge<br /> The 13th Floor Elevators<br /> Love<br /> The Left Banke<br /> Walk Away Renée<br /> Light My Fire<br /> Cream<br /> Santana<br /> The Paul Butterfield Blues Band<br /> Buffalo Springfield<br /> Miles Davis<br /> Break On Through (To the Other Side)<br /> The Rolling Stones<br /> Tony Bennett<br /> Hair<br /> Jesus Christ Superstar<br /> Godspell<br /> the end of the era<br /> Woodstock<br /> Whole Lotta Love<br /> King Crimson<br /> Velvet Underground<br /> MC5<br /> The Standells<br /> Embryonic Journey<br /> Frank Zappa<br /> I am the Walrus<br /> Astronomy Domine</p> <p>***</p> <p>Rob's 5 indispensable Psychedelic albums:</p> <p>Are You Experienced<br /> The Piper at the Gates of Dawn<br /> Magical Mystery Tour<br /> After Bathing at Baxter's<br /> Live/Dead</p> <p>***</p> <p>recorded June 6, 2022</p> <p>***</p> <p>Visit us at <a href= "https://chrisandrandall.com/">https://chrisandrandall.com/</a></p>
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